Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

Happy people have two things in common. They know exactly what they want and they feel they're moving toward getting it.

Everyone has unique gifts and talents. What you love is what you're gifted at. To be completely happy, to live a completely fulfilled life, you have to do what you love.

Not fulfilling your dreams will be a loss to the world, because the world needs everyone's gift - yours and mine.

Doing your own thing is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at the work you love. You too are a natural resource.

You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.

The cure for sorrow is to learn something.

Isolation is a dream killer.

The first step is to find out what you love - and don't be practical about it. The second step is to start doing what you love immediately, in any small way possible.

All Disruption starts with introspection.

Failure is something made only by those who fail to dare not by those who dare to fail.

I think being an outcast is what sort of strengthens the nerd movement, because you're isolated, so you have time.

I do regard myself as very lucky.

I have a hard problem, being some part Native American - being a Christian: do you get burned, do you get cremated, do you get - let the sharks eat you? How do you die?

Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.

There's a lot of me in Captain Jack and there's a lot of Captain Jack in me. And there is no pun intended.

The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.

I don't like the idea of famous people.

There are two kinds of disease of the soul, vice and ignorance.